30 Refreshing Quotes about Hope to Lift Our Spirits

Hope is a gentle and powerful force that activates within us a fuller capacity to overcome our worldly troubles. I would say that hope is an essential (but certainly not the only) ingredient in abiding happiness. These quotes about hope will encourage you to trust, and to contribute your energy to the most positive use of the present moment.

“Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.” – A Course in Miracles

The above quote is like a whisper from my soul, telling me that all is well because it’s adamant about my arrival, all in due time.

It’s okay for us to enjoy the journey; in fact, what other meaningful thing is there to do? If we can’t enjoy the journey, we’re challenged to discover a better way to live in the world, because it’s ALL a journey.

If we’re only comfortable doubting ourselves, our life circumstances, and the outcome, then how can we expect a hopeful answer in return?

With each thought, we are asking. We’re either asking for what we want, or asking for what we don’t want, depending on what we focus our attention on most. Then, with each step, we reaffirm that which we asked for—abundance (what we want) or how we don’t have what we want, how we want to feel or how we don’t want to feel…

Instead of focusing on what’s not right in the world, what if we started contributing our focus, guiding our thoughts, based on what we do believe to be good?

We must become willing to show up in our lives with the courage to cultivate the energy we’re looking for in the first place. We’re in a better position to receive hope-filled answers if we first resolve to give hopeful thoughts.

When we meet our hopeful intentions with intentional action, we recognize that we have a role to play here. Hope for the future starts with the preferences we act on today—here, now… not in another place, but this place. Even hope is a present-moment request to enjoy the road we’re on.

I ask that you read the following quotes about hope with a mind open to what’s possible for you, and for this place. My hope is that more and more of us devote ourselves to enjoying the path we’re walking—not someday when something else has “allowed” us to be happy, but while we’re walking it.

30 Quotes about Hope, So We Can Wait without Anxiety and Enjoy the Ride

1. “Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.” – Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic’s Notebook, 1960

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